“I don't want to die without any scars.”

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”

“Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.”

“To be haunted is to glimpse a truth that might best be hidden.”

“A book is as private and consensual as sex.”

“This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.”